The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[Hoppy2bmerry]

This one’s for you! https://byo.com/recipe/piney-river-brewing-co-s-black-walnut-clone/ @balrog
Please don’t shoot me.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

From social media:
Hello friends and fans of Jack’s Abby & Wormtown,

We have some exciting news to share - Jack’s Abby has agreed to purchase Worcester based brewery and local mainstay, Wormtown Brewery.

This acquisition solidifies our local business as one of the largest one hundred percent family-owned brewing companies in the country under the newly launched banner of “Hendler Family Brewing Co.”

Here’s what you need to know:
*The Wormtown taprooms will remain in Worcester and Foxborough, now with additional resources and support from Jack’s Abby. Only Wormtown products will be served at Wormtown locations.
*We’re retaining the majority of non-ownership staff and are eagerly expanding our team
*We are committed to upholding the quality and consistency of Wormtown’s products and maintaining its core lineup of fan favorites, including Be Hoppy IPA, Be Smooth NEIPADouble IPA and Don’t Worry NEIPA.
*The Jack’s Abby headquarters and taproom will remain in Framingham, and will only serve Jack’s Abby products.
*The sale is expected to close officially early summer, 2024.

We are dedicated to fostering long-term growth and prosperity within the Massachusetts brewing landscape and that includes keeping beloved brands like Wormtown going strong.

When you grab a Be Hoppy IPA or House Lager, you’re not just enjoying a great craft beer, you’re supporting a local, family-owned business.

Prost,
Jack, Eric and Sam Hendler

 

[day_trippr]

Has to be the best outcome we could hope for...

 

[balrog]

Happy May the 5th everyone.

I'm having altbier.

What a rebel.

 

[Dgallo]

Happy May the 5th everyone.

I'm having altbier.

What a rebel.

Hahaha negra modelo is an altbeir if IRC , so I think your fine

 

[balrog]

Fun little bit of weather yesterday, but for the wind and hail and sky gone black as satan's armpit part.

 

[day_trippr]

Otoh, if you could bottle Today, I'd buy a few cases

 

[paulthenurse]

What he ^^^^ said.

Although I just got out of work so I missed the day.

Still, a nice evening for an adult beverage on the deck

 

[day_trippr]

Probably going to be overcast but if not keep an eye towards the north...

https://www.wcvb.com/article/massachusetts-aurora-northern-lights-potential-may-10/60746558

 

[balrog]

Ah Spring, when a man’s fancy turns to mainlining Benadryl.

It’s been 20 minutes.

Time to wipe the pollen off the porch table.

 

[day_trippr]

"Revenge Of The Walnut Trees"?

 

[balrog]

Interwebz sez Oak right now.

but we both know the nasty walnutses are fomenting discord

 

[balrog]

Today's allergies are rating high on the Oedipus Scale - I wanna claw both my eyes out.

Time for a bike ride.

Wish I hadn't mowed the lawn first.

 

[day_trippr]

Today I laid out our veggie garden with drip irrigation and landscape cloth and tomato stakes and pepper cages, and was seeing sheets of pollen being stirred out of the big oaks on the property. Fortunately I'm not allergic to pollen because I'm sure I inhaled plenty of it. My truck has turned from grey to chartreuse

 

[balrog]

And it came to pass that the people were oppressed and cried out for help.
And lo, did the Saw of Chain come forth and smite mightily.
And the people rejoiced, and made much merriment, and took pictures, and feasted on the cow, and the vegetables and the breakfast cereals.
And there was great hope in the land.
For one of the Nuts of Wall had fallen.

"Yeah, that guy's obsessed with walnuts. He needs help"

"He needs a beer"

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

And verily the hopses rejoiced.

 

[balrog]

WHO DOESNT HAVE A SPARE BATTERY??!!

Phooey.

(Go ahead, I can take it - “who tries cutting down fairly big trees with a cute little electric pole saw?”)

When I was younger I would break out the 3’ bow saw, and rebelled in the fresh air and exercise of doing it “the old fashioned way” for a day.

Yeah, I was nucking futs back then.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

You might need a spare chain too.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

 

[day_trippr]

Unless one conducted an insurrection I believe the word is "reveled"
And wth is ^that^?

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Those are the Ent men retreating from the Shire Balrog.

 

[day_trippr]

Riiiight.

I am soo old

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Come on! You're not a true engineering nerd. Tolkien created them around the time of WWIi. They're ancient "tree" people representing the battle against evil, time, progress and nature.

 

[day_trippr]

You're not a true engineering nerd.

My CV and the USPTO strongly suggest otherwise
Anyway, I never got into the "Rings" and that stuff.
My reading for pleasure is more Arthur C. Clarke and his ilk...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

Unless one conducted an insurrection I believe the word is "reveled"
And wth is ^that^?

Ha, schooled again.

And those are Ents.

All good LOTR fans know that.

 

[balrog]

OK, edit, that's weird. HBT told me I had no new posts, until I posted a reply, at which point 5 new posts were there.
That weren't there before.
Honest.
Yes I'm having a beer after a bike ride, after sawing limbs (I was gonna say logs but at what point does a limb satisfy the criteria for logdom?)

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

My CV and the USPTO strongly suggest otherwise
Anyway, I never got into the "Rings" and that stuff.
My reading for pleasure is more Arthur C. Clarke and his ilk...

Cheers!

Nonetheless you've insulted every mead maker on this forum

 

[balrog]

My freshman year honors astronomy textbook was written by Asimov. Just FYI

 

[day_trippr]

Nonetheless you've insulted every mead maker on this forum

I'm on a roll!
My apologies to meadsters/meadians/meadites/meadicians everywhere...

 

[balrog]

I will say that “rebelled” was autocorrected.

Not drunken typo’d

That’s my story and I’m licking to it.